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John Morley: “Lord Salisbury’s clear and rationalising understanding might have been expected to carry him to a thoroughgoing…”

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Lord Salisbury’s clear and rationalising understanding might have been expected to carry him to a thoroughgoing experiment to get rid of a deep and inveterate disorder.
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John Morley

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Morley suggests that Lord Salisbury's rational understanding should have led him to seek solutions for Ireland's issues.

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